Show HN: Swarm, a beautiful torrent client on macOS

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2 points | by gkaimakas 10 hours ago ago

10 comments

  • inigyou 4 hours ago ago

    Putting movie posters in the UI is proof of criminal intent btw. It advertises this program is intended for downloading movies.

  • toomuchtodo 10 hours ago ago

    I’m willing to do pay to support your work, curious if and how much this was vibe coded and if you intend to support into the future.

    • gkaimakas 9 hours ago ago

      Of course it will be updated in the future. I have implemented a feedback feature to understand what users want and prioritize

    • gkaimakas 9 hours ago ago

      Hey, thanks for the reply.

      I had Claude help me with linking libtorrent to swift since this is not something I do at work normally.

      The rest was done by me

  • inigyou 10 hours ago ago

    Spoiler: it's yet another wrapper for libtorrent

    • gkaimakas 9 hours ago ago

      It would be foolish to assume that reimplementing a torrent library is feasible for anyone. Open source code is meant to be reused.

      I can assure you that integrating with libtorrent was the easy part and completed in mere hours :)

      • inigyou 9 hours ago ago

        Call me crazy but I interpret a new torrent program to torrent newly, else it's just a reskin.

        • gkaimakas 8 hours ago ago

          By your own definition every program in the planet is a reskin of something if it’s using open source code.

          I’d expect strangers on the internet to be less mean than this.

          • inigyou 7 hours ago ago

            Firefox on iOS is just reskinned Safari, yes

            • gkaimakas 6 hours ago ago

              iOS is a reskin of Unix